Posted on 12/17/2002 7:02:12 AM PST by twas
Lesbians voted "cutest couple"
CRETE, Ill. - Their story has played out like the name of a popular lesbian movie: "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love." It started last month, when the girls - longtime high school sweethearts - were voted "cutest couple" by their fellow seniors at Crete-Monee High School in the suburbs south of Chicago.
Administrators balked, at first. Then several students walked out of class to support the girls.
It is a drama that, for a time anyway, awakened this sleepy town, lined with antique shops, churches and cafes and still surrounded by corn fields.
In the end, the girls' parents - though a bit shell-shocked - agreed to let a photograph of the couple appear in the school yearbook.
And last week, District Superintendent Roberta Berry wrote a letter praising the students at Crete-Monee High: "I am proud to say that while other schools continue to address issues such as alienation, bullying and hate crimes, we have a student body that not only accepts each others' differences, but also celebrates them."
Upset, some parents and community members have called to complain and written letters to the editor of local newspapers.
But others are supportive - a sign, students say, that times are changing.
"This isn't 1952 anymore. I think people need to realize there are different people everywhere," says Rachel Urban, a 17-year-old Crete-Monee senior. "If 15- and 17-year-olds are mature enough to handle this, the rest of the country can."
There are other examples of students supporting their gay, lesbian and bisexual peers. In 1999, an openly gay high school student in San Anselmo, Calif., was elected homecoming king. Last year, a lesbian from Ferndale, Wash., was elected king at her prom.
Meanwhile, students at an increasing number of schools are forming gay-straight alliances to support one another - and more school districts are training teachers to work with gay students.
A 2002 report by the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a nationwide group of students, parents and teachers, notes that only nine states and the District of Columbia have some form of protection for students, based on sexual orientation and gender identity - California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
The lack of protection, students and others say, makes it that much harder to come out.
In your mind it might be. But then again, you are focused on the sex and not the cultural aspect of this issue. Or is it because its an interracial lesbian couple? You wouldn't happen to be Trent Lott?
Accepting 'Diversity' is a coward's method of covering their lack of courage of standing up for their core beliefs.
You can't just let the children choose their path without guidance, for if they do, they are likely to latch hold of the first shiny thing that strikes their fancy, and realize only too late the hook in their cheek.
My, but that wasn't a very clever bait and switch.
Again, being a pervert and belonging to an ethnic are not analogous.
One is the behavioral choice of an emotionally unstable individual, the other is one's heritage.
One is cause for shame, the other is cause for pride.
Kliebold and Harris should have lived to see the day when their murderous ways might have also been celebrated as "differences".
"If 15- and 17-year-olds are mature enough to handle this, the rest of the country can."
This is really scary. This person is actually suggesting that adults need to accept students as role models? This educator wants adults to take their cues on how to react to the world from children? Does he let the students tell him how to run the school? NO WONDER education in this country is where it is.
When I was 15-17 we thought the best way to run a school was to "Rock and Roll all night and party every day." Maybe that should be the way we should run the country?
Cry the beloved country.
Shalom.
I'm sure some members of the American Taliban, carrying the Old Testament in one hand and a lead pipe in the other will "treat" these girls the way you want.
Ok, Trent. Lets segregate 'dem 'dar homos! Yeehaw!!!
What other groups of law abiding citizens do you want to discriminate against? Who else can we deny inclusion? Or can you provide a checklist of acceptable sexual practices for American citizens. Missionary position only? We have already learned that you are dead set against interracial lesbianism.
Its time for Republicans to stand up for what we say, "Getting Government out of the lives of citizens" and "Treating every law abiding citizen equal without judgement".
Make sure you ping me when you find a newspaper report describing how these girls were attacked by a devout Biblical Christian with a lead pipe.
Feel free also to post links to past incidents where devout Biblical Christians have bludgeoned other perverts to death.
What's that? Can't find any? The guys who killed little Matthew Shepard were actually degenerate drug addicts, not church-going, teetotalling Baptists?
Keep peddling your fantasies.
We don't want to segregate them. We want to help them. Denying they have a problem denies them the help they need.
We don't want to segregate them. We don't even want to know about them. It's not as if what turns you on is visible like skin color is. What consenting adults (well, these are kids but you get my drift) do in the privacy of their own homes is nobody's business. But if they decide to discuss their erotic preferences with us, we need to be able to be honest with them.
Shalom.
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